passdb interface design

[Andrew Bartlett]

On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 09:42:02AM -0500, Gerald Carter wrote:
> On Mon, 30 Sep 2002 Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE wrote:
> 
> > 
> > * The other alternative is to move the (not too big) groupdb API
> >   entirely to the passdb backend. This would make it possible to get
> >   LDAP replication for group mapping quite easily. We could encapsulate 
> >   LDAP (with connection caching.... ;-) in one file.
> > 
> > * Design of LDAP replication: What about a sambaGroup objectclass as
> >   supplementary to posixGroup that contains gid, sid, ntname,
> >   grouptype, comment etc? All the stuff that mapping.c stores in the
> >   tdb.
> 
> Both of these ideas sound fine to me....

Sounds fine to me.

Andrew Bartlett